Online Resources

Web Resources & Links

For home access to all the online databases, you will need usernames and passwords. Please ask your librarian for this information.

LIBRARY CATALOG & E-BOOKS

Destiny Quest is our online library search tool for the 21st Century teacher/student. Discover how easy authoritative searching can be through Web Path Express and One Search. Print books, eBooks, and AV materials.

Follett Shelf eBooks is our online digital library. Students and teachers may read these books online or check them out for later online use. There are fiction and nonfiction titles,whichmay be read for pleasure or used for teaching in the classroom. These eBooks may be accessed 24/7. Click HERE for directions, apps, usernames and passwords.

OverDrive is a collection of high interest fiction and non-fiction eBooks and audiobooks available for DeSoto Middle Schools, Freshman Campus and High School. They are accessable 365/24/7 and downloadable to almost every device. Click HERE for directions, apps, usernames and passwords.

ProQuest SIRS Discoverer is a multidisciplinary database for elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine and reference content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality domestic and international sources. The collection includes 9,000+ integrated educational weblinks, and reference materials such as the Compton’s by Britannica encyclopedia and DK Eyewitness books.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online is an Internet resource that has encyclopedia information, Internet Guides, and links to magazine articles. Britannica also has a world atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, historical timelines, images, and multimedia.

Enciclopedia Juvenil is a spanish division Encyclopedia Britannica and is helpful for beginning Spanish classes. It provides a Spanish elementary encyclopedia, images, videos, and learning materials.

Spanish Reference Center is the Spanish version of our other Encyclopedia Britannica. This would be great a great resource for any Spanish speaker or student taking Spanish.

TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, and a wealth of multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas.

Explore manuscripts, artwork, and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers to the mid-twentieth century. Includes photos, newspaper articles, rare and original documents, treaties, speeches, diaries, maps and journals.

Explore fact and fiction of the westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth century that includes Buffalo Bill and the "Wild West" . Browse original books, journals, maps, periodicals, ads, photos and artwork.

Other Resources

Career Cruising will help students plan their future. It has assessment tools, occupation profiles, and post-secondary education information

World and I contains theme oriented information which features thousands of images and articles on global cultures. The perfect cross curricular resource for Social Studies, English, Science, Arts, Spanish and ESL.

NBC Learn provides collections of video resources, primary sources, historic footage, images and documentaries for use by students and teachers in the classroom.

Historical Events

New York Public Library Digital Collections: Free to share and Reuse that are in public domain allowing users to enjoy and use the materials in a way they want. There are now over 180,000 digitized items in public domain. These include materials such as prints, photographs, maps, books, paintings, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, streaming video and many

Images

Online links for you to freely use digitized historical images that are in the public domain, royalty free, and/or can be used under fair use of copyright.

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